"You all picked up a signal that's sort of like a parasitic vine," London reported. "It's weak, mostly just sucking at power right now, but we're worried that it's trying to wear down your security programs and get at vital information."
"Fortunately, you beefed up our security so nothing short of
another artificial intelligence can get through. Right?" Kurt said. He
sounded a little tense. Yeah, I could understand why. Tonight should have been
romantic and entirely focused on him and Jane.
"Hey, I'm not exactly a fan of all this high-tech stuff,"
Maurice said, waving his arms. "Seems to me even on a lot of those shows
the guys love, with all the computers and spaceships and such, the simplest fix
is to just shut everything down and reboot, right?"
We all sat very still for about five seconds. Then London laughed. She
nodded and held up her hand for a high five. Maurice flew over to the tablet
and slapped at the screen. Less than a minute later, we had shut down our three
phones, Sherwood verified the leach signal had vanished within ten seconds, we
turned our phones back on, and everything was back to normal.
"Okay, so somebody is on the outside, tampering with the shield again?" Jane said.
"Looks like it," Sherwood said. "We were focusing on the shield, playing with some of our modulation programs, after Pete and Meggie saw something on an episode of Stargate. We've set up a pattern that doesn't repeat until nearly 500 modulations of the frequency. That's kind of taking up more of our attention than we anticipated." He shrugged. "Sorry."
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